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The truth about Enron that most Americans don't want to hear

2/2/2006 - Mainstream America loves to dream. But those dreams turned to financial nightmares when the massive house of fraud known as Enron collapsed a few years ago. Later, nightmares turned to anger as Americans harmed by the collapse (investors, employees and...

Interview with David Bronner, president of all-natural, authentically organic Dr. Bronner's Soaps

2/1/2006 - Mike: I'm here with David Bronner, the president of Dr. Bronner's Soaps. You were just talking to me about the issues of honesty in organics, in terms of personal care products. Bronner: Or lack thereof. Mike: Or lack thereof. Can you tell the readers...

80 percent of U.S. businesses are overcharged on their phone bills while telecom companies reap profits from "accidental" billing errors

12/11/2005 - When Alexander Graham Bell placed the first phone call to Thomas Watson, it is doubtful he was considering whether he would be overcharged for the call. Many American businesses have the same attitude, and it's just easier for them to trust that the...

Commercial Alert vs. USDA: How one non-profit is fighting to eliminate junk food from America's schools

12/6/2005 - Parents have expectations of what will happen once they drop their child off at school. The two most basic expectations are that their child will learn and that they will be safe while at school, but the once-insular school environment has changed. Advertisers...

Big Pharma and profit priorities: why business ethics never trickle up

10/19/2005 - One of the things I've observed while doing public speaking, being a part of business councils and interacting with a lot of well-connected people in society, is that many people work with the pharmaceutical company known as Merck. Merck seems to be...

Email privacy now a top concern for 19 out of 20 internet users

5/24/2005 - How important is email privacy to your business? A new email privacy survey conducted by Relemail reveals it may be far more important than you expected. The survey presents some startling statistics about how email subscribers view privacy. Let's take...

Drug companies engage in massive health care fraud, but are never held accountable

8/19/2004 - U.S. pharmaceutical companies are finding clever ways to avoid the consequences of a 1996 law that mandates their exclusion from federal health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid if they are convicted of felony health care fraud. According to...

Viagra Now Being Increasingly Used as a Recreational Drug By Younger Men: Is Pfizer Responsible?

8/6/2004 - A new study is showing that recreational use of Viagra is growing rapidly in men under 45 years of age. From 1998 to 2002, the use of Viagra in men under forty-five tripled, says the study, which looked at 5 million insured American males. What this...

Apple Computer Now Emerging As An Anti-Competitive, Narrow-Minded Company That Prefers To Limit Consumer Rights Rather Than Expand Them

8/6/2004 - Apple is taking more heat over its anti-competitive practices regarding its iPod copy protection technology. The French online music store Virgin Mega has now filed a legal complaint against Apple, saying that Apple is engaged in anti-competitive practices...

Pharmaceutical Maker Bristol-Meyers Squibb Pays $150 Million Settlement to SEC to Settle Charges of Accounting Fraud

8/6/2004 - In yet more news about the criminal activity of pharmaceutical companies, Bristol-Meyers Squibb has agreed to pay $150 million to settle charges levied by the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission. Bristol-Meyers has agreed to pay a $100 million...

Maker of Claritin Drug To Plead Guilty To Federal Criminal Anti-Kickback Charges, Pay Fine of $52 Million, Also Facing $282 Million In Civil Liabilities

8/6/2004 - In yet another example of a pharmaceutical company found guilty of criminal charges in terms of price-fixing, the drug company Schering-Plough has agreed to plead guilty to federal anti-kickback charges. The company, which makes the popular Claritin...

Pharmaceutical company admits to lying about the health risks of its drugs

7/26/2004 - A major prescription drug company in the United States has admitted to making misleading claims about the safety of its products. The company failed to include important information about hypoglycemia and diabetes, and promoted its drug as being safer...

Corruption exposed: drug companies gave grants, consulting fees to panelists who issued new cholesterol guidelines that are driving demand for statins

7/15/2004 - The new cholesterol lowering guidelines are proving to be a windfall for statin drug manufacturers like Pfizer and Merck: most news articles and medical advice concerning the new guidelines recommend drugs -- and drugs only -- to reduce cholesterol level....

Kellogg's caught in mercury controversy; New York bans mercury toys in childrens' breakfast cereals

7/13/2004 - In a previous article, I reported how Kellogg's was shipping boxes of childrens' breakfast cereal with Spiderman toys containing mercury batteries. I pointed out the insanity of including a highly toxic heavy metal (mercury) in boxes of cereal, not just...

Kellogg's ships mercury batteries inside boxes of childrens' breakfast cereal

7/3/2004 - What could have prompted Kellogg's to take one of the most toxic heavy metals known to mankind and intentionally place it inside boxes of childrens' breakfast cereal? Insanity, perhaps. Or, more accurately, utter disregard for the health of their customers....

Business ethics nowhere to be found in the U.S. food and pharmaceutical industries

1/7/2004 10:45:18 AM - Amazingly, some people are still not convinced that U.S. corporations will engage in nearly every sort of subterfuge imaginable in order to make a profit. For those, here's yet another story: Monsanto is under investigation and accused of fixing...

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